[olug] Unix Tip: CHMOD THE SYSTEM

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			Unix Tip 2181 - December 21, 2002

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CHMOD THE SYSTEM

Along the lines of:

D O   N O T   D O   T H I S!

Reports from several admins have
been made that dangerous users 
who obtain root for the first 
time enable full access to the
entire system. They are using
the following command:

# chmod -R 777 /

If you feel you have any 
dangerous users, please advice
them of the dangers of executing
such a command. 




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